Emotional scenes were witnessed minutes before the meeting when several widows of farmers, who had committed suicide due to debt burden in various parts of the State in the last couple of months, broke down before Rahul Gandhi while narrating their tales of woes.
Mr. Gandhi gave a patient hearing to them and tried to instil confidence in them by assuring them to implement concrete measures to bail them out of their trouble.
He struck a chord with the party cadre at the meeting by driving home the point that the Congress is bound to trounce the ruling TRS in the next Assembly elections to realise the aspirations of the people of Telangana, which he alleged was shattered by the eight-year rule of the TRS dispensation.
